Motivational Quotes

Thoughts and thinking

What we are today comes from our thoughts of yesterday, and our present thoughts build our life of tomorrow: Our life is the creation of our mind.

- Buddha

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Thoughts and thinking

Man's greatness lies in his power of thought.

Pascal, Blaise

He who thinks and thinks for himself, will always have a claim to thanks; it is no matter whether it be right or wrong, so as it be explicit. If it is right, it will serve as a guide to direct; if wrong, as a beacon to warn.

Bentham, Jeremy

Thinking is the most unhealthy thing in the world, and people die of it just as they die of any other disease. Fortunately, in England at any rate, thought is not catching. Our splendid physique as a people is entirely due to our national stupidity.

Wilde, Oscar

It is clear that all verbal structures with meaning are verbal imitations of that elusive psychological and physiological process known as thought, a process stumbling through emotional entanglements, sudden irrational convictions, involuntary gleams of insight, rationalized prejudices, and blocks of panic and inertia, finally to reach a completely incommunicable intuition.

Frye, Northrop

Men fear thought as they fear nothing else on earth more than ruin more even than death. Thought is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible, thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habit. Thought looks into the pit of hell and is not afraid. Thought is great and swift and free, the light of the world, and the chief glory of man.

Russell, Bertrand

We in America have everything we need except the most important thing of all-time to think and the habit of thought.

Cousins, Norman

He that never thinks can never be wise.

Johnson

Nothing pains some people more than having to think.

King Jr. Martin Luther

Great thoughts always come from the heart.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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One must live the way one thinks or end up thinking the way one has lived.

Bourget, Paul

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Thought makes every thing fit for use.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Thoughts of themselves have no substance; let them arise and pass away unheeded. Thoughts will not take form of themselves, unless they are grasped by the attention; if they are ignored, there will be no appearing and no disappearing.

Ashvaghosha

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Thinking in words slows you down and actually decreases comprehension in much the same way as walking a tightrope too slowly makes one lose one's balance.

Fleischer, Lenore

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There is a big difference between thinking: I'm in a relationship and something's wrong. Therefore something must be wrong with the relationship. and thinking I'm in a relationship and we've got problems. This is evidence that you are different than me.

Dyer, Wayne

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Man is only a reed, the weakest in nature; but he is a thinking reed. There is no need for the whole universe to take up arms to crush him: a vapor, a drop of water is enough to kill him. But even if the universe were to crush him, man would still be nobler than his slayer, because he knows that he is dying and the advantage the universe has over him. The universe knows nothing of this.

Pascal, Blaise

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The how thinker gets problems solved effectively because he wastes no time with futile ifs.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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When thoughts arise, then do all things arise. When thoughts vanish, then do all things vanish.

Po, Huang

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In order to be able to set a limit to thought, we should have to find both sides of the limit thinkable (i.e. we should have to be able to think what cannot be thought).

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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Thinking clearly and effectively is the greatest asset of any human being. We are constantly reminded that the one superiority that man has over other animals is the ability to think. It is primarily our ability to think that sets us apart from other animals.

Lorayne, Harry

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No man can think clearly when his fists are clenched.

Nathan, George Jean

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I think and that is all that I am.

Dyer, Wayne

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Nothing is more active than thought, for it travels over the universe, and nothing is stronger than necessity for all must submit to it.

Thales of Miletus

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Many a man fails as an original thinker simply because his memory it too good.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Thoughts are the shadows of our sensations -- always darker, emptier, simpler than these.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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It is astonishing what an effort it seems to be for many people to put their brains definitely and systematically to work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.

Aurelius, Marcus

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Meditation is the life of the soul: Action, the soul of meditation. and honor the reward of action.

Quarles, Francis

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If everybody thought before they spoke, the silence would be deafening.

Barzan, George

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One thought fills immensity.

Blake, William

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Man is obviously made for thinking. Therein lies all his dignity and his merit; and his whole duty is to think as he ought.

Pascal, Blaise

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If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Thought is an infection. In the case of certain thoughts, it becomes an epidemic.

Stevens, Wallace

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Guard your roving thoughts with a jealous care, for speech is but the dialer of thoughts, and every fool can plainly read in your words what is the hour of your thoughts.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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We like a man to come right out and say what he thinks, if we agree with him.

Twain, Mark

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Each thought that is welcomed and recorded is a nest egg by the side of which more will be laid.

Thoreau, Henry David

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What was once thought can never be unthought.

Friedrich, Carl J.

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Man cannot produce a single work without the assistance of the slow, assiduous, corrosive worm of thought.

Montale, Eugenio

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Man must get his thoughts, words and actions out of this vast moral jungle. We are not predators. We are, hopefully, more than instinctive killers and selfish brutes. Why take such a dim view of our potentialities and capabilities?

Dinsah, H.Jay

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Everyone has to learn to think differently, bigger, to open to possibilities.

Winfrey, Oprah

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When I am attacked by gloomy thoughts, nothing helps me so much as running to my books, They quickly absorb me and banish the clouds from my mind.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Thought is the sculptor who can create the person you want to be.

Thoreau, Henry David

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The soul of God is poured into the world through the thoughts of men.